Speakers
Our all-star lineup of industry experts will share their vision for future and offer practical tips for getting things done. The following is a partial list of speakers; check back as new speakers are announced.
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Amber Case
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and UX Designer from Portland, Oregon. Her main focus is applying anthropology to mobile computing and social software. Case has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT's Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder.
Thor Muller
Thor is CTO and co-founder of Get Satisfaction who founds and advises startups that make a difference to real people. He’s a Web pioneer who bridges design and technology, and a true believer in social entrepreneurship.
Tomer Sharon
Tomer is a User Experience Researcher at Google Search and author of the book, It's Our Research. He founded and led UPA Israel and is the co-founder and organizer of leanUXmachine, a weekend of UX learning, collaboration, and mentorship for Israeli startups.
Nathan Shedroff
Nathan is a pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, speaks and teaches internationally, and is a serial entrepreneur. His many books include Experience Design 1.1, Making Meaning, Design is the Problem, and the upcoming Make It So. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School and a BS in Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design. He worked with Richard Saul Wurman at The Understanding Business and later co-founded vivid studios, a decade-old pioneering company in interactive media and one of the first Web services firms on the planet.
Jeff White
Jeff is the Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic and has worked on Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Avengers, The Chronicals of Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Star Wars: Episode III and other acclaimed, visual effects driven films.
Bruce Wyman
Bruce provides strategy, vision, and leadership for Second Story's creative output. He helps establish new initiatives and creative directions, along with providing leadership to oversee the efficient, collaborative execution of the interaction design development processes.
Todd Anglin
Todd is VP of HTML5 Web & Mobile tools at Telerik and leads the global Kendo UI team, which builds a professional toolset that has everything you need to create apps with HTML5 and JavaScript.
Faruk Ates
Faruk is a designer, developer and web standards educator with a strong passion for accessible techniques and progressive enhancement. Now busy with a new startup of his own, Faruk previously worked as Lead Designer at Apture, User Interface Engineer at Apple, and before that he built and designed Content Management Systems at a startup in The Netherlands.
Anant Athale
Anant is a Lead Technical Architect at American Express Technologies. His work has focused on user interface technologies for the internet and mobile platforms. His prior stints include work at Motorola Mobile Devices where he worked on user interface frameworks and tools for mobile platforms including Android. He has several filed patent applications and publications.
Crystal Beasley
Tiny, fiery Southern girl who, when she isn’t baking pies or telling you what to do, works at Mozilla as a User Experience Designer. Previously herded LOLcats at Cheezburger, Inc.
Gorman Bechard
Gorman is the author of seven novels and directed/wrote the indie features Friends (WIth Benefits) (2009) and You Are Alone (2006), the horror comedy cult-classic Psychos in Love (1986), and most recently completed Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements, which Rolling Stone named one of “the seven best music documentaries of the year”
Jamie Beckland
Jamie is a Digital and Social Media Strategist at Janrain where he helps Fortune 1000 companies integrate emerging technologies into their websites to improve user acquisition and engagement. He has built online communities since 2004.
John Bragg
John is a founder and head of development at Seabright Studios Ltd. He started his career as a network security engineer at Capital One (before the caveman television adverts). After fighting the bad guys for years, he focused his energy on design simplicity and fast, elegant code. Most recently, he was head of Web Development at Kosmix (now @walmartlabs).
Raymond Brigleb
Raymond grew up in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, playing lots of music and making lots of zines at Kinko's (back when Kinko's was cool, remember?). He's been building websites since 1997. Fifteen years later, his work has improved.
John Brinnard
John considers himself a pragmatic software architect and has designed and built systems for companies such as Sun, 3Com, eBay and Silicon Valley start-ups. He currently works at Netflix designing and building distributed, scalable Customer Service applications in the cloud.
Corinne Erly Brown
Corinne Erly Brown is Senior Information Architect and Web Manager with Seattle Public Utilities. In 2011, the City of Seattle won Best of the Web award from the Center for Digital Government for the third year in a row. Past clients have included QVC, Ford Motor Company and Christopher Lowell.
Bob Burns
Bob is currently the Senior Manger for User Experience working with Best Buy’s Interactive Digital Experiences team. His work focuses on user research and interaction design for mobile and alternative interfaces, and the integration of digital experiences into physical environments.
Adam Connor
As an Experience Design Director with Mad*Pow in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Adam combines his interaction design experience with his background in Computer Science, Film and Visual Design to create effective, efficient, and easy-to-use applications, websites, and interactive media.
Scott Cowley
Scott is the Head of Search Engine Optimization at ZAGG, the market leader in mobile accessories. He is also a social media and web content strategist, speaking frequently at local universities. He is in leadership or advisory capacities for Social Media Club of Salt Lake and Social Commerce Exchange and is an ongoing writer for Search Engine Journal.
Jason Cranford Teague
Jason is the Managing Director of User Experience for Forum One, an interactive agency applying technology in creative ways to build a more positive future. He is also a prolific writer, with numerous books and articles published about all aspects of digital media and culture including The CSS3 Visual Quickstart, Fluid Web Typography and Speaking in Styles: The Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers.
Richard Dalton
Richard manages a team of Information Architects and User Experience Designers at Vanguard, where he passionately advocates designing experiences within the context of user and business goals and measuring success and failure.
Jordan Dossett
Jordan is the founder of Antharia, a leading web development firm that focuses on non-profits.
Kate Ertmann
Kate Ertmann is a businesswoman, seasoned speaker, thought leader and a charitable advocate. A child actor for kid's television programming and commercials, she renounced her Hollywood hopes in favor of a telecommunications degree from Ohio University.
Jesse Freeman
For the past 13 years Jesse Freeman has been on the cutting edge of interactive development with a focus on the web and mobile platforms. As an expert in his field, Jesse has worked for VW, Tommy Hilfiger, Heavy, MLB, the New York Jets, HBO and many more. Jesse was a traditional artist for most of his life until making the transition into interactive art and hasn't looked back since.
Ryan Frietas
Ryan Freitas is the co-founder and product lead of about.me, now an AOL property. He is a long-serving practitioner, consultant and speaker within the interaction design and UX communities. As an advisor and seed investor, he remains an outspoken voice on how startups should approach product design.
Justin Garrity
Justin is a creative professional living in the Portland area. He is passionate about great brands, mobile apps, and data visualization.
As Chief Creative Officer at FreeRange 360, Justin Garrity oversees creative efforts including branding, product marketing, user experience, and customer experience.
Jason Grigsby
Jason is a mobile web strategist, co-founder of CloudFour.com and MobilePortland.com, and co-author of Head First Mobile Web. Jason has a proven track record of identifying upcoming trends and positioning clients to take advantage of new technology. He specializes in helping customers determine the best way to accomplish their business objectives online.
Aaron Gustafson
Aaron has nearly 15 years experience on the web and, in that time, has cultivated a love of web standards and an in-depth knowledge of website strategy and architecture, interface design, and numerous languages (including XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP).
William Hersh, MD
William Hersh, MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
Andrew Hinton
Andrew Hinton is Principal User Experience Architect at Macquarium, a user-experience consulting firm based in Atlanta, GA. An internationally recognized speaker and writer on IA and UX, Andrew has designed information systems and interfaces for Fortune 500s, small businesses and non-profits alike, as both an internal employee and an external consultant.
Eric Holzclaw
Eric’s 20+ years of experience include work for a variety of successful startup companies including GeoMedica, Information America, OneCoast and CyberSource.
Kevin Hoyt
Kevin Hoyt is a Group Manager of Developer Evangelism at Adobe, Inc. where he has been actively involved in furthering web technologies for more than a decade. As a Developer Evangelist, Kevin is responsible for covering a broad array of Adobe technologies, and spends upwards of seventy percent of the year presenting keynotes, session and hands-on labs at events across the globe.
Aaron Irizarry
Aaron has a background in visual design and has been handcrafting pixels since 1998. Over time Aaron grew increasingly interested in the overall experiences that users were having and now focuses on creating well-rounded experiences and trying to save the world one user at a time.
Peter Jones, Ph.D.
Peter is associate professor at Toronto’s largest design school, OCAD University, and teaches in the Strategic Foresight and Innovation graduate program. Peter founded and leads Redesign, an innovation research firm now based in Toronto.
Tim Kadlec
Tim is web developer living and working in northern Wisconsin. His diverse background working with small companies to large publishers and industrial corporations has allowed him to see how the careful application of web technologies can impact businesses of all sizes.
Nishant Kothary
When he is not writing on MIX Online, Nishant splits his time unevenly between: advising Microsoft teams on their Web strategy; contributing writings on design & human behavior to popular online publications like Smashing Magazine and UXMag; signing up for one-off projects like leading the ground-up redesign of Channel9; and, taking on the occasional speaking gig.
Wm Leler
Wm is a principal engineer at Flightstats, where he draws lots of airplanes, airports, weather, and other things on maps, and a Fellow at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where he has worked with some amazing artists on web-based, virtual reality, and location-based mobile projects
Traci Lepore
Traci has over 10 years experience as a professional interaction designer and user researcher, and currently works at Avid.
Victor Lombardi
Victor started his career in information technology, building systems at the Boston Consulting Group, DDB Needham, and others. He went on to work as a user interface designer, contributing to over 40 software and Internet products. As a manager at Razorfish and a co-founder of the Management Innovation Group he consulted with companies such as General Electric, Cisco, and J.P. Morgan.
Peter Merholz
Peter recently joined Inflection as its Vice President, User Experience. As co-founder of premier UX consulting firm Adaptive Path, Peter brings over 15 years of experience in web design and interactive media to Inflection's top-flight UX team.
Chris Noessel
In his day job as a Managing Director at Cooper, Chris designs products, services, and strategy for a variety of domains, including health, financial, and consumer. In prior experience he’s developed kiosks for museums, helped to visualize the future of counter-terrorism, built prototypes of coming technologies for Microsoft, and designed telehealth devices to accommodate the crazy facts of modern healthcare.
Aaron Parecki
Aaron is a Portland-based iPhone and PHP developer interested in solving practical problems with technology. In his free time, he enjoys geolocation, linguistics, and building home automation systems and IRC bots with a sense of humor. For the past 3 years, he has been tracking and visualizing his location every 6 seconds, making him a frequent presenter at the Portland data visualization group.
Thomas Phinney
Thomas is the senior product manager for fonts and typography at Extensis. He has long been involved in the design, technical, forensic, business and historical aspects of type, as well as font standards development. His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original.
Will Reese, Ph.D.
Will Reese is a Ph.D. cultural anthropologist who leads the White Horse Digital Futures Group, an insights team that evaluates the human relevance of emerging technologies (especially mobile) to create compelling new digital experiences.
Chris Risdon
Chris is a lead experience designer at Adaptive Path. He started a journeyman career in information architecture and product strategy in 1997 and over the past 14 years has applied a combination of IA, graphic and interaction design to successful products and services for both large enterprises and start-ups.
Terry Ryan
Terry is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe. The job basically entails helping developers using Adobe technologies to be successful. His focus is on web and mobile technologies including expertise in both Flash and HTML. Previous to that, he spent a decade working in various technical roles at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dan Saffer
Dan is a Director of Interaction Design at SMART Design. He is the author of Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices (New Riders), Designing Gestural Interfaces (O'Reilly), and Designing Devices.
Kit Seeborg
Kit is the community manager and home page curator for SlideShare, the largest content sharing website in the world. Kit spends most of her waking hours looking at and listening to content on the Web. She views hundreds of PowerPoint presentations every week, and as the founder of BumperTunes, listens to wonderful and terrible samples of new music.
Paul Trani
Paul is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe Systems who loves to demonstrate the power of HTML5 to create award-winning work for desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Paul has been an Adobe Certified Instructor for over a decade, producing content for AdobeTV.co and has earned “top author” status at Lynda.com.
Des Traynor
Des is UX Lead at Intercom, a customer relationship management and messaging tool for web app owners. In this role Des works on interface design, customer communications, and all content & messaging within the tool itself.
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a content strategist and writer based in Tempe, Arizona, where she helps clients stop creating endless content and start building strategies that are sustainable, meaningful, and future-ready.
Dylan Wilbanks
Dylan is a web generalist currently wearing the hat of user experience designer at Apptio. He does a lot of front-end design while trying to build a fully iterative UX lifecycle into an enterprise software development team.
Gino Zahnd
Gino is a founder and head of design at Seabright Studios Ltd. He has been a designer and leader at Adaptive Path, Flickr, Yahoo! Travel, Kosmix, and Volan Design. He got his start in the mid-90’s as an interaction designer and developer at Studio Archetype (acquired by Sapient), Small Pond Studios and Method. He stays grounded in the UX community by speaking at industry events, workshops, and universities.
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Days LeftPortland
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Portland, OR 97232
Portland, OR 97232
Entering its 12th year, the Portland event kicks off with studio tours, parties and networking events on Tuesday, followed by one day of workshops and two full day of sessions, panels and keynotes.
